三、阅读短文内容,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
It was raining, like any other rainy day. The only 10. (usual) thing was that my parents kept talking about the weather. So I started paying attention to the weather report. The weatherman 11. (warn) that the rain might cause floods. I didn’t really know what that meant, 12. I began to understand the next morning.
I woke up and heard some noise from the basement. “What’s 13. matter?” I asked. Mum shouted from the basement, “Don’t come down! 14. (we) basement is full of water!” Dad explained rainwater had entered through broken windows. “Except for the basement, the house is still dry,” he said. “We need 15. (make) preparations now. Let’s go out to buy a pump(抽水机).”
There was water everywhere in the neighbourhood. The worst part was that it was still 16. (flood) into houses in low places. Some neighbours refused to leave, worrying about the security of their things. Seeing that, we started helping people move their things to dry places. 17. (thankful), some young volunteers came to help. These common people became true 18. (hero), putting their own safety at risk.
We returned home late that night. “We didn’t get a pump,” I said. Dad replied, “But we did something much 19. (great). When we’re in trouble, we need to be helpful. Only together can we live through difficult times.”

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